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SC 131. Human Genetics. 3 Hours. (SC) SCIENCE This course is designed for nonscience majors to support the natural interest of most people in those human physical, behavioral, and social Courses characteristics that have a hereditary basis. Lectures, discussions SC 101. Introduction to Nutrition. 3 Hours. and the solving of simple genetic and statistical problems are used to This course serves as an introduction to nutritional concepts and to form a basis for the consideration of current social issues with genetic the interconnections of health, nutrition, weight, and physical activity. implications. This course is particularly appropriate for students with no science SC 134. Introduction to Geology. 3 Hours. background. The course, specifically designed for the Environmental Science majors, SC 104. Organismal Biology. 3 Hours. introduces fundamentals of geology in the environmental context. The Organismal Biology is an introductory biology course with an integrated issues of local and global environmental changes are placed into a lab, intended primarily for non-science majors. This course enables the broader perspective of the functioning of the Earth system. Students student to become aware of their role in the complex biological system are introduced into the science of Earth' materials: rocks, minerals, soils, in which they live. Students will learn about plant biology, animal biology and waters and the processes forming them. The internal processes and microbiology in the context of how these organisms have shaped (plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes) and surface processes our current state of biodiversity. Since all organisms grow, develop and (streams, flooding, coastal zones, mass movements, glaciers, winds, subsist within an environment, topics will include how organisms survive desertification) are presented from the point of view of their influence in, and interact with other organisms within their ecological community. on the geologic hazards, and on the distribution of natural resources. The interrelation of geology and human activities is examined in such SC 105. Headline Science. 3 Hours. contexts as waste disposal, air pollution, water contamination, climate This course explores various contemporary issues in science using an change, land degradation, and resource and energy consumption. The integrative and societal approach. Students will study the topics from a format of this course includes one local field trip, lab activities on rocks biological, chemical, physical, and environmental perspective, and relate and minerals identification, and introduction to topographic and geologic the significance of the scientific matter to their major field of study. This maps. course is intended for non-science majors. Prerequisite(s): MS 132. SC 135. Introduction to Meteorology. 3 Hours. SC 106. Introduction to Exercise Science. 3 Hours. This course provides the student with a basic understanding of weather This is an introductory course to exercise science. Topics for the course phenomenon and how weather is predicted. Students will master the include acute and chronic physiological responses to exercise, nutrition, terminology of weather prediction; explore the water cycle, and how the biomechanics, and physical fitness. The course also covers concepts sun affects weather. The course will also treat atmospheric circulation, related to health and statistics. cloud formation and identification and students will learn how to make SC 109. Introduction to Gardening. 3 Hours. weather assumptions based on observations of temperature, pressure, This course is an introduction to home gardening. In the Husson garden, humidity, wind direction, and sky cover. Students will also learn how students experientially learn about planting, growing, and harvesting weather data is collected and how forecasters make predictions based on crops within the framework provided by organic gardening practices. previous and current weather observations. Students also explore gardening as it relates to larger societal issues, SC 141. Environmental Science. 3 Hours. such as climate change and food insecurity. No previous gardening This course is a survey of the important topics in environmental experience is assumed. science. Concepts of energy flow and nutrient cycling are explored in the SC 110. Personal Fitness. 3 Hours. context of human impacts upon these processes. Sources of pollution This course is intended to introduce students of all majors on best and their total effect on ecosystem and biosphere function are also approaches to fitness. Appropriately utilizing the concepts of exercise explored. Management of material wastes and energy efficiency is an science, students will gain insights on how to develop an individualized integral theme of the class. This class satisfies the laboratory science exercise program through assessment, design and implementation. requirement with a series on in-class lab experiences and field trips. Various technologies such as fit-bit, coach’s eye, image capture and SC 142. Conservation Biology. 3 Hours. video will be used to practices fitness concepts. Through an online This course emphasizes the basic principles of conservation that are format this course promotes personal training approaches to improve applied to utilization and management of natural resources such as soil, understandings of fitness. Offering the course in this format allows for water, range lands, forests, wildlife, minerals, and human populations. students to mimic best fitness approaches such as working out at times The study of the interrelationships between living organisms and that fit the students' schedule, choosing the location of their workout, their environment is known as ecology. This course applies ecological developing practices that may be utilized and progressed, and keeping a concepts to conservation problems and policies. digital record. SC 120. Functional Anatomy and Physiology. 3 Hours. Functional Anatomy and Physiology is a one semester, 3 credit lecture with a separate laboratory course designed to give the non-science major knowledge of the human body and its relationship with the environment. Topics covered include: the chemical basis of life, the anatomy & physiology of all organ systems, growth, development, heredity and biotechnology issues. 2 (SC) Science

SC 145. Environmental Science Field Experience I. 1 Hour. SC 151. Conceptual Physics. 3 Hours. This course provides students with Environmental Science job Conceptual Physics is an introductory physics course with an integrated experiences on and off campus. These experiences range in length lab, intended primarily for non-science majors. In this course we will from days to months, but are less rigorous and in-depth than traditional study motion, mechanics, gravity, heat, electricity, magnetism, optics, internships. The experience will be composed of time spent with a atomic, nuclear and molecular physics, and relativity. We will also professional from an Environmental Science profession while working learn about the process by which physicists attempt to understand the in their area of expertise. Areas of concentration include, but are not intriguing laws of nature. The course will be taught using a combination limited to: agriculture, compliance, energy systems, environmental of lectures, classroom demonstrations and laboratory experiments. monitoring, land use, natural resources management, policy, research, Understanding of the fundamental concepts rather than number and sustainability. The student should have three experiences in crunching is emphasized in this course and the equations will serve to different areas of concentration in order to expose them to a variety refine the concepts and facilitate student’s thinking process. Ultimately, of employment experiences in their first two to three years of the it is hoped that by taking this course the student will develop a better Environmental Science program, and assisting the student in determining appreciation for the natural world. the focus of the coursework for the last year of their program. Each field SC 167. Energy and Society. 3 Hours. experience must be coordinated through, and approved by, the director(s) This course examines the basic physical principles underlying various of the Environmental Science program. energy technologies and develops the quantitative skills necessary SC 146. Environmental Science Field Experience II. 1 Hour. to evaluate these technologies. Students present their work in both This course provides students with Environmental Science job written and oral form. The end goal of this course is to help students experiences on and off campus. These experiences range in length become citizens that have the requisite background and communication from days to months, but are less rigorous and in-depth than traditional skills to intelligently participate in energy policy discussions and internships. The experience will be composed of time spent with a decisions. Topics typically include basic scientific literacy and notation, professional from an Environmental Science profession while working introductory physics (such as force, work, energy, power), circuit analysis, in their area of expertise. Areas of concentration include, but are not thermodynamics, various energy technologies (fossil fuels, nuclear power, limited to: agriculture, compliance, energy systems, environmental solar, hydroelectric, etc.), and placing these technologies in a broader monitoring, land use, natural resources management, policy, research, environmental, social, and economic context. This course includes and sustainability. The student should have three experiences in an integrated laboratory in order to introduce basic laboratory skills. different areas of concentration in order to expose them to a variety Prerequisite(s): MS 141 or MS 180 or MS 181 or MS 182. of employment experiences in their first two to three years of the SC 180. Principles of Gen Chemistry. 3 Hours. Environmental Science program, and assisting the student in determining This course explores fundamental quantitative and qualitative principles the focus of the coursework for the last year of their program. Each field of inorganic, organic and biological chemistry and provides a basic experience must be coordinated through, and approved by, the director(s) understanding of theoretical and applied aspects of general chemistry. of the Environmental Science program. Topics in inorganic chemistry include measurement, atomic theory and SC 147. Environmental Science Field Experience III. 1 Hour. chemical bonding, chemical reactions and mass relationships, kinetic This course provides students with Environmental Science job theory and gas laws, acids, bases, pH and buffers. Organic chemistry experiences on and off campus. These experiences range in length will provide an overview of the nomenclature, properties and reactivity of from days to months, but are less rigorous and in-depth than traditional major groups of organic compounds, while biochemistry will focus on the internships. The experience will be composed of time spent with a chemistry of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and enzymes. An overview professional from an Environmental Science profession while working of biochemical energetics, nucleic acids and protein synthesis is also in their area of expertise. Areas of concentration include, but are not included. limited to: agriculture, compliance, energy systems, environmental SC 181. Chemistry I. 3 Hours. monitoring, land use, natural resources management, policy, research, This introduction to chemistry provides a basic understanding of and sustainability. The student should have three experiences in theoretical and practical aspects of inorganic chemistry. The course different areas of concentration in order to expose them to a variety includes the metric system, chemical elements and symbols, the of employment experiences in their first two to three years of the structure of the atom, chemical bonds, molecules and compounds, and Environmental Science program, and assisting the student in determining chemical reactions. the focus of the coursework for the last year of their program. Each field experience must be coordinated through, and approved by, the director(s) SC 182. Chemistry II. 3 Hours. of the Environmental Science program. This course is a continuation of Chemistry I. It focuses on organic chemistry and biochemistry and provides a background for SC 150. Astronomy of the Solar System. 3 Hours. understanding the chemical mechanisms of health and disease. Organic This is an introductory astronomy course with a virtual observing chemistry will emphasize the study of carbon, its special properties, component that is intended to give the students some basic knowledge and its compounds. Biochemistry will focus on the chemicals of living about the world in which we live. The primary objective of this class organisms, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. Selected is to help the students understand the solar system. The course will physiological topics such as energy metabolism, the genetic code, and present an overview of the night sky, the constellations, light -telescope protein synthesis are included. Prerequisite(s): SC 181. and the nature of stars and the galaxies but the emphasis will be on understanding our solar system. The Sun, Earth, Moon, planets and their satellites, asteroids and comets will be studied in some detail. No mathematics or physics background is assumed in this course. (SC) Science 3

SC 190. The Science of Fingerprints. 3 Hours. SC 210. Marine Biology. 3 Hours. This course will allow students to examine every facet of the discipline, Oceans cover more than 70% of the earth's surface and support all life from the history of friction ridge identification and its earliest pioneers on the planet. This course follows an ecological approach to consider and researchers, skin growth in the embryo, structure of skin, scarring the adaptations and interactions of plants and animals with their marine and histology, the chemistry of sweat and other secretions, to the habitats, with particular emphasis on the ecosystems and organisms in scientific basis and the various steps of the identification process. The the Gulf of Maine. Communities discussed include the open ocean, the structure and growth of friction skin and how it can leave latent or visible deep-sea, subtidal and intertidal zones, and estuaries, as well as habitats prints are examined, as well as advanced identification methods in found exclusively in tropical and polar regions. Prerequisite(s): SC 191 or ridgeology, including Poroscopy, Edgeoscopy, Pressure Distortion and SC 192. Complex or Problem Print Analysis. Students will learn how to process SC 213. Sustainability Science Projects. 3 Hours. porous and non- porous items for friction ridge detail and how to preserve This course serves as the capstone project for the sustainability minor. these impressions. Students will take known impressions and practice Students will collaborate within multidisciplinary teams to propose and comparing developed impressions to these known exemplars. evaluate a solution (or solutions) to a sustainability problem developed by SC 191. General Biology I. 3 Hours. the team or proposed by the instructor. At the end of the semester each General Biology I focuses on biological principles that are fundamental team will present its results in the form of a written thesis and an oral to all of biology. This course covers the diversity of life and the presentation. Prerequisite(s): EH 124 and (MS 141 or MS 180 or MS 181 commonalities of all living things including: molecular structure, or MS 182). cell structure and function, metabolism, cell division, heredity, and SC 221. Anatomy and Physiology I. 3 Hours. genetics. This course will also review the scientific process and the This course provides an in-depth understanding of the structures and evaluation of scientific information. This course will prepare students functions of the human body and its parts. The course begins with the for future courses in anatomy and physiology, cell biology, microbiology, organization of the human body and descriptive terminology relating to biochemistry, genomic biology, and other biological specialties. This various segments of the body. Cellular anatomy and physiology and study course is limited to students in programs requiring this course or are of tissues lead to the study of the organ systems. Topics included in intending to take further biology courses. the course are skin, the skeletal system, joints, the nervous system, and SC 192. General Biology II. 3 Hours. muscle. General Biology II is the continuation of a two-semester series in SC 222. Anatomy and Physiology II. 3 Hours. general biology for science majors. This course is designed to provide This course is a continuation of Anatomy and Physiology I. The course a thorough introduction to biology and prepare students for further will provide a thorough understanding of structure-function relationships study of evolution and ecology in SC 240. The goal of the course is to down to the molecular level. The semester will cover the special senses, emphasize the diversity of species and for students to understand their blood, the cardiovascular system, lymphatics, the respiratory system, relationship to, and their place in, the natural world. General Biology II the digestive system, the urinary system, the endocrine system, and is an introduction to the systematics, anatomy and physiology of the reproduction. Prerequisite(s): SC 221. plant and animal kingdoms. This course will examine the structure and function of plant and animal organ systems in the framework of the SC 224. Research Design. 3 Hours. evolution of adaptations. The course also concludes with an introduction This course introduces basic concepts and skills needed for to ecological systems. understanding and conducting research in the social, educational and health sciences. Students will receive a basic introduction to the SC 193. Foundational Concepts in Research I. 1 Hour. fundamentals of research—what it involves, what types exist, and This course introduces students to conducting independent research how to design and conduct such research. Examined are the essential while an undergraduate student at Husson University. Student terms and concepts of research necessary for students to critically will visit faculty laboratories and gain an understanding of basic evaluate research literature, develop solid research questions, and plan research concepts. Should students elect to participate in the Husson simple research projects. Active engagement with the research process Undergraduate Scholars Program, this course serves as the first will occur through class participation, exercises, literature reviews, foundational course. development of research questions, and creation of inquiry strategies for SC 199. Topic/. 1-6 Hour. answering research questions. Prerequisite(s): MS 132. This course is intended to provide the opportunity to offer introductory SC 234. Nutrition. 3 Hours. courses in science that would not normally be a part of the Husson This course examines the basic nutritional principles (biological, curriculum. As such the topics will depend upon the interests of students chemical and regulatory mechanisms); the changing nutritional and faculty. requirements throughout the life cycle; the relationship between nutrition SC 202. Science Immersion. 3 Hours. and disease; the principles of therapeutic nutrition (diet therapy) and the This course emphasizes conservation by providing students an assessment of nutritional status. Prerequisite(s): SC 180 or SC 181. experiential setting that illuminates various aspects of the precarious SC 240. Ecology. 3 Hours. balance between people's effect on the environment and the natural order This course explores the interaction of biotic and abiotic components in of things. Educational goals focus on the conservation and restoration of functioning ecosystems. It will examine topics in population distribution our natural heritage so that biodiversity is not depleted. and dynamics, major terrestrial and aquatic habitats, community interactions such as competition and predation, nutrient cycling, energy flow, and ecosystem succession. The concurrently run lab will train students in identifying local flora and fauna, as well as collection and analysis of field data. 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SC 241. Microbiology for the Health Sciences. 3 Hours. SC 272. Physics II. 3 Hours. This course provides a broad understanding of both beneficial and This course continues the development of the basic physical concepts harmful microorganisms and their roles in human welfare, with an begun in SC 271. Topics include electricity and magnetism, optics, atomic emphasis on pathogens. Topics will include the structure, physiology, theory, relativity. Quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, and elementary and control of human pathogens, particularly bacteria and viruses. The particles. The class meets for three hours each week in lecture and associated laboratory course (SL241) provides experience in important recitation, and two hours each week in the lab. Prerequisite(s): SC 271. techniques of culturing, identifying, and controlling microorganisms. SC 283. Environmental Inorganic Chemistry. 3 Hours. Prerequisite(s): SC 191 and (SC 180 or SC 182) and MS 141. In this course, students obtain an understanding of the fundamental SC 242. Biotechnology. 3 Hours. chemistry implicit in the environment. Students also become familiar with The current explosion in wonder drugs, diagnostic tests and medical aspects of mineralogy, oceanography, soil science, sedimentology and treatments has resulted, primarily, from advances in biotechnology. This microbiology. The course emphasizes natural geochemical processes course will explore the origins and current status of biotechnology and and how they operate over a variety of scales. Topics range from global how it is applied in the world or research, product development, medical issues such as atmospheric pollution and its effect on global warming diagnosis, disease treatment and law enforcement. This course will and ozone destruction to the link between microbiological populations primarily focus on those areas of biotechnology that pertain to molecular and local and global scale nutrient and chemical cycling. The course is biology and biochemistry. The laboratory portion of this course will designed to introduce the student to major systems and cycles in the expose students to many of the techniques used in molecular biology/ environment and how materials and energy are cycled in these systems. biotechnology laboratories around the world. Prerequisite(s): SC 102 and Prerequisite(s): SC 181 and SC 182 and SL 181 and SL 182. SC 103. SC 285. University Physics I. 3 Hours. SC 251. Astronomy. 3 Hours. University Physics I is the first course in a two semester, calculus based This is an introductory course that will describe, develop and create university physics sequence. The goal of this course is to introduce physical models for many of the observable astronomical events in the students to the concepts of force and motion, work and energy, simple sky. The topics may include motion in the night sky, the solar system, harmonic motion, and waves. The class meets for three hours each light, stars, star groups, the origin of the universe, life in the universe, and week in lecture, two hours each week in recitation, and two hours each UFO’s. The course has a required night sky/constellation observation week in the lab. This course assumes no prior background in physics. component. Prerequisite(s): MS 181. SC 261. Integrated Physical Science I. 3 Hours. SC 286. University Physics II. 3 Hours. Integrated Physical Science I is the first course in the two semester This course continues the development of the basic physical concepts sequence of Physical Science. The sequence is intended for, but not begun in SC285. Topics include electricity, magnetism, and optics. The limited to, students planning career in elementary education. Using class meets for three hours each week in lecture, two hours each week physical environment as a theme, principles of chemistry, physics, in recitation, and two hours each week in the lab. Prerequisite(s): MS 181 geology, atmospheric science, and space science are introduced, and and SC 285. reinforced through inquiry-based lab activities and field trips. This first SC 287. Organic Chemistry I. 3 Hours. course of the sequence, covers fundamental concepts of chemistry and This course comprises the first semester of a one-year introduction to the physics, which include: motion, waves and particles, energy, structure chemistry of carbon-containing compounds. It provides fundamentals and properties of inorganic and organic matter and their mixtures, of modern organic chemistry with an emphasis on chemical bonding, interactions of energy and matter, order and equilibrium of physical stereochemistry, and reaction mechanisms. Chemistry, as one of the systems. exact sciences, requires quantification. Therefore, development of SC 262. Integrated Physical Science II. 3 Hours. the critical thinking and problem solving strategies, as well as the Integrated Physical Science II is the second course in the two semester experimental know-how and laboratory skills are major objectives of the sequence of Physical Science. The sequence is intended for, but not course. Introduction to microscale lab techniques, modern analytical limited to, students planning careers in elementary education. Using instrumentation, as well as computation technology additionally supports environment as a theme, principles of physical sciences are introduced objectives of the course. Prerequisite(s): SC 182. and reinforced through inquiry-based lab activities. The course covers SC 288. Organic Chemistry II. 3 Hours. fundamental concepts of geology, atmospheric science, and space This course comprises the second semester of a one-year introduction to science. the chemistry of carbon-containing compounds. It provides fundamentals SC 271. Physics I. 3 Hours. of modern organic chemistry with an emphasis on stereochemistry, Physics I is the first course in a two semester general physics sequence. modern instrumental methods in identification of organic compounds, The goal of this course is to introduce the student to the concepts energetics, reaction mechanisms, and selected applications in of force and motion, work and energy, fluids and gases, heat and biochemistry. Critical analysis of structure-properties` relationships in thermodynamics, and periodic motion. The class meets for three hours organic chemistry, and their applications, as well as more advanced each week in lecture and recitation, and two hours each week in the lab. know-how (FT-NMR or FT-IR, and UV/Vis spectroscopies) and laboratory This course assumes no prior background in physics. Prerequisite(s): skills (applications of semi-empirical molecular computations, and MS 180 or MS 181. multistep synthetic procedures) are major objectives of this course. Prerequisite(s): SC 287. (SC) Science 5

SC 291. Cell Biology. 3 Hours. SC 334. General Genetics. 3 Hours. This course is a detailed exploration of cell structure and function with an This class reviews the basic mechanisms of inheritance (Mendelian emphasis on the cytoplasm and extracellular matrix. Topics in membrane genetics) and molecular mechanisms of gene expression. The course structure, transmembrane transport, vesicle trafficking, cytoskeletal covers how DNA is organized in chromosomes and how chromosomes organization, and macromolecular assembly processes are considered. behave as cells progress through the cell cycle. Students also examine Cell to cell communications and the role of the extracellular matrix in complex hereditary phenomena such as gene linkage, recombination tissue level processes are also explored. Superficial examination is given and epistasis, and explore the sources and consequences of mutation to the structure and organization of the nucleus, chromosomes and as well as DNA repair mechanisms that normally operate in organisms. gene expression to prepare students for the companion course entitled Additional topics include how gene expression is regulated, both in Genomic Biology. Prerequisite(s): SC 191. prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Students then present on a variety of topics SC 292. Epidemiology. 3 Hours. related to genetics. Prerequisite(s): SC 191 and SC 181. Basic concepts of epidemiology and methods for identification of factors SC 336. Evolution. 3 Hours. influencing health and disease in human populations. Considerations This course provides an overview of the current field of evolutionary are centered on physical, biological, psychosocial and cultural factors in biology. In this course students develop a basic understanding of the relation to infectious and noninfectious diseases; interactions between major topics in evolutionary biology, including: the theory of evolution agent, host, and environmental factors as determinants of health and by natural selection, the history of evolutionary thought, population disease; application of the epidemiologic approach to health services; genetics, sexual and kin selection, evolutionary trees/ phylogenies, and retrospective and prospective analysis of morbidity data. Instruction how new species arise, and how scientists explain the origin of life on is by lecture, laboratory exercises and seminars. earth and human evolution. In addition, students come to understand SC 299. Topic/. 1-6 Hour. how evolution provides a framework for the broader field of biology and This course is intended to provide the opportunity to offer introductory how evolutionary theory can be used to address some social issues. courses in science that would not normally be a part of the Husson Prerequisite(s): SC 191 and SC 192 and SL 191 and SL 192 and SC 334. curriculum. As such the topics will depend upon the interests of students SC 340. Anatomical Basis of Kinesiology. 3 Hours. and faculty. This course involves studying the mechanics of human body movements SC 312. Adult,Infant, and Child CPR First Aid. 3 Hours. and the interrelationships of bones, joints, and muscles. Prerequisite(s): This is a standard American Heart and American Red Cross course in SC 120 or SC 122. adult, infant and child emergency care of injuries and CPR. Standard SC 351. Oceanography. 3 Hours. certificate awarded on successful completion of course. This course examines the physical and biological characteristics of the SC 330. Exercise Physiology. 3 Hours. marine environment. Topics include the origin of earth and its oceans, This course examines changes within the human body due to the effects life in the oceans, the history of oceanography, plate tectonics, the nature of acute and chronic exercise. The student is challenged to expand both of water, ocean circulation, waves, tides, shorelines, and coastal regions. their knowledge of and appreciation of human physiological reaction, A large portion of the course examines the interrelationships between regulation, and adaptation to exercise. Prerequisite(s): SC 111 or SC 120 organisms and the marine environment, mariculture marine pollution, and or SC 222. pollution control. SC 332. Physiological Ecology of Animals and Plants. 3 Hours. SC 352. Biochemistry. 3 Hours. This course explores the structural and functional relationships within In this offering, the student will be exposed to reductionism in the plants and animals that make them adapted to their environment. This field of biology. Biochemistry overlaps and articulates with many course uses numerous examples to illustrate how plants and animals fields of endeavor. The discipline embraces physiology, pharmacology, survive given the constraints of their environment. Examples will be taken enzymatics, nutrition, immunology, structural biology, biotechnology, and from temperate, arctic, alpine, tropical, desert, and aquatic ecosystems. molecular biology all at the same time. The course curriculum will focus Prerequisite(s): SC 191 and SC 192. upon the role of enzymes in guiding metabolic processes and pathways. The student will come to understand the details of biological functioning SC 333. Pathophysiology. 3 Hours. at these three levels of organization: Metabolism, metabolic pathways, Pathophysiology is the study of abnormal, diseased physiological enzymatic mechanisms and kinetics. Prerequisite(s): SC 182 and SC 191 processes. The course begins with an examination of altered cell and SL 191. functioning, injury and death. The course continues with pathophysiology of the body systems and inability of diseased systems to maintain SC 353. Principles of Strength and Cardiovascular Conditioning. 3 Hours. homeostasis. Also included are topics in inflammation, immunity, This course provides students with an opportunity to develop an in-depth neoplasia, and adaptations of the body to stress. Although aging is understanding of the principles of strength training and conditioning. By not considered a disease, some aspects of aging will be discussed. critically analyzing current research, students utilize an evidence-based Prerequisite(s): SC 221 and SC 222. approach to develop and justify conditioning programs and techniques for a broad range of sports and activities. Prerequisite(s): SC 340. 6 (SC) Science

SC 354. General Microbiology. 3 Hours. SC 383. Junior Science Seminar. 3 Hours. This course serves as an introduction to the broad field of microbiology This course introduces students to careers in science, the scientific with an emphasis on microbial evolution, diversity, and ecology. Topics research process, and research expectations within the biology, health include cell structure and function, metabolic pathways, genetics, science, chemistry and environmental science majors. The major focus is microbial systems, the impact microorganisms have on the environment, to develop a senior research proposal on the basis of what is attainable, and microorganisms of medical and veterinary importance. In the interesting, and meaningful. Students learn, in detail, both the limits and recommended associated laboratory course (SL 354) students apply expectations of undergraduate research in the sciences. Students are course concepts to explorations of microbial genetics, systems, and introduced to the important role of library resources and the professional interactions. Prerequisite(s): SC 191 and SC 180 and SC 182 and (MS 141 literature as they investigate their chosen topic. Students are also or MS 180 or MS 181 or MS 182). expected to write a resume and career goals statement, give an oral SC 356. Nutrition for Health and Exercise Performance. 3 Hours. presentation on a chosen career field in science, lead a class discussion This course focuses on the current concepts of nutrition, the integration of a scientific article, and submit a written research proposal that of these concepts into human health, and the role of nutrition in the includes a scientific literature review, problem statement or hypothesis, enhancement of fitness and exercise performance. Students will be a timeline for completion, and detailed budget for their proposed senior introduced to the underlying biochemical mechanisms of nutrition and thesis research. Students present their proposed research and evaluate apply the evidence-based nutritional information to improve health and other student’s research proposals. Prerequisite(s): MS 132. exercise performance. Prerequisite(s): SC 222. SC 389. Environmental Sampling and Analysis. 4 Hours. SC 360. Biomechanics & Kinesiology in Human Performance. 3 Hours. This course covers the methodology of obtaining, managing, and This course examines the application of anatomical and physiological interpreting the analysis results of environmental media including principles of kinesiology and physical movement. Topics include air, water, groundwater, biological, and soil samples. This course is the scientific study of human movement, analysis of motor skills, intended to give the students hands-on training in designing sampling and programs of exercise and evaluation of human performance. and analysis protocols for a variety of applications. These include Prerequisite(s): SC 222 or SC 120. preparing a sampling/analysis plan for a research proposal, writing Phase 1 proposals for an engineering firm or laboratory setting, or SC 362. Dynamics of the Earth. 3 Hours. designing sampling/analysis for a forensics investigation. Jobs in these This course presents the basic concepts of earth science that include fields require involvement with some aspect of such work. This class a broad and nonquantitative survey at the introductory level of topics is designed to help students understand how samples are obtained in geology, oceanography, meteorology and astronomy. In geology, and analyzed and what those reports mean. Quality control and quality the topics emphasized are plate tectonics, volcanic activity, mountain assurance policies and procedures are emphasized. Students gain building, minerals and rocks, earthquakes, geologic time and earth competency in interpreting results so that they can participate in history. In meteorology, the specific areas include weather elements, decision-making. Prerequisite(s): MS 132 and SC 181 and SL 181 and weather patterns and storms. The astronomy unit reviews constellations, SC 182 and SL 182. the moon, the solar system and beyond. Laboratory activities are included to demonstrate concepts. Within each unit human use and SC 390. Biochemical and Molecular Methods. 4 Hours. manipulation of physical resources is examined from both a scientific This is a combined lecture and lab course that focuses on the theory, and economic perspective. techniques, and instrumentation used in the Biochemistry laboratory. The methods covered include gene cloning, protein purification, SC 367. Mathematics and Physics of Sustainable Energy. 3 Hours. chromatography, electrophoresis, spectroscopy, centrifugation, nucleic In this course you will examine the basic physical principles behind acid structure, protein structure, and PCR. Students apply these methods the generation and consumption of electrical energy. Mathematical isolating and characterizing proteins and nucleic acids. Prerequisite(s): skills necessary to quantitatively compare different sustainable energy SC 352 and SC 381 and SL 381. technologies and associated issues are developed. This course assumes no prior background in physics. Prerequisite(s): MS 141 or MS 180 or SC 393. Physical Chemistry. 3 Hours. MS 181 or MS 182. This course provides an introduction to the methods describing complex physiochemical systems and their responses to external chemical and/ SC 371. Horticulture. 3 Hours. or physical stresses. Classical and modern theories of equilibrium and This course presents the fundamentals of horticulture including topics non-equilibrium thermodynamics, kinetic theory of transport phenomena, such as environmental factors affecting plants, methods of growing as well as quantum and statistical mechanics are introduced and applied plants, pruning, grafting, harvesting and storing, pests and horticulture to molecular systems and spectroscopy. Biological and biochemical plants and their control, horticulture for home grounds, and the vegetable problems are shown how to be formulated and solved by using principles garden. Laboratory activities enable students to practice experimental of physical chemistry. Prerequisite(s): MS 132 and MS 181 and SC 182 design and planting techniques used in horticulture. and SC 272. SC 373. Inorganic Chemistry. 3 Hours. SC 394. Analytical Chemistry. 3 Hours. This course is designed to introduce the basic principles and concepts This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of analytical of inorganic chemistry. The course is intended for students who wish chemistry. It covers sample treatment, statistical analysis of data, to pursue careers in chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, or the life measurement errors, and applications of chemical equilibrium, kinetics, sciences. Topics to be covered include: atomic and molecular structure, transport, light scattering, emission, and absorption to chemical analysis. experimental techniques, bonding in polyatomics, acid/base chemistry, The following analytical methods are studied: Volumetric, gravimetric, oxidation/reduction, descriptive chemistry of hydrogen and the s, p, d, electrochemical, chromatography, and spectroscopy. The course includes and f block elements. Prerequisite(s): SC 181 and SC 182 and MS 181. lab. Prerequisite(s): MS 132 and (MS 180 or MS 181) and SC 382 and SL 382. 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SC 399. Topic/. 1-6 Hour. SC 481. Senior Science Capstone Project I. 3 Hours. This course is intended to provide the opportunity to offer advanced This course serves as the capstone project for science majors in the courses in science that would not normally be a part of the Husson School of Science & Humanities. The course provides experiential curriculum. As such the topics will depend upon the interests of students learning relevant to the student’s area of study. Acceptable projects and faculty. include laboratory or field research, an internship with an approved mentor, research survey or some other project deemed appropriate by SC 401. Exercise Testing and Interpretation. 3 Hours. This course explores how fitness assessments can be used to quantify the faculty. During the course, students meet periodically with their health and performance. Through a variety of hands-on experiences faculty advisor to plan their progress through the project. At the end of students will utilize statistical approaches to successfully interpret the semester, students present the final results of their research or a measured values so that a more complete view of an individual’s overall summary of their experience in the form of an oral presentation and a health and performance may be gained. Prerequisite(s): SC 222 and written thesis. Prerequisite(s): SC 224 or SC 383. SC 340. SC 482. Biological Research & Laboratory Safety II. 3 Hours. SC 402. Exercise Training for Health and Performance. 3 Hours. The course serves as the continuation of the capstone course in the The lecture component of the course is aimed at the physical basis Biology major and is necessarily preceded by SC 481. Students who wish and physiological basis for developing and implementing a fitness to continue with their laboratory or field research may elect to take this program. The laboratory component of the course is aimed at course. The emphasis during this semester will be on increasing sample program development and program implementation for fitness and/ size or elaborating on the research that was started in SC 481. Students or performance. Utilizing course concepts, students will design and will be required to share their final results with the Husson University implement an exercise program. Prerequisite(s): SC 222 and SC 401. community and at a regional or national scientific meeting. Students will be encouraged to publish their work in the peer-reviewed literature. SC 403. Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease. 3 Hours. Prerequisite(s): SC 481. This course considers the molecular and cellular basis of chronic disease. From biochemistry and immunology perspectives, emphasis SC 490. Environmental Science Research Seminar I. 3 Hours. will be placed on how exercise and nutrition may be used to prevent Environmental Science is a dynamic, responsive, and applied discipline. and manage chronic disease. Specific conditions discussed will In this experiential course, students explore potential careers and include: obesity, diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis, chronic fatigue research areas in Environmental Science. With individual guidance from syndrome and aging. Prerequisite(s): SC 222 and SC 402. course instructors as well as collaborative study, students will develop working résumés, apply for internship positions, and synthesize the SC 410. Motor Learning in Human Performance. 3 Hours. primary scientific literature in their field of interest to develop a feasible This course explores the application of learning and performance of scientific research proposal. An internship in environmental science with motor skills. Topics include the scientific study of motor skills and a local, state, or federal agency or a private organization is a required abilities, motor control, attention and memory, motor skill learning, component of this course; students share their internship experience with instruction and augmented feedback, and practice conditions. classmates and the Husson community. Prerequisite(s): SC 222 or SC 120. SC 491. Environmental Science Research Seminar II. 3 Hours. SC 435. Advanced Principles of Physiology. 4 Hours. This course serves as the capstone course in the Environmental Science Physiology is the foundation for the understanding of biological and Program. With guidance from course instructors, students conduct medical sciences. The purpose of this class is to examine advanced individual, self-directed research in their field of interest within the concepts of physiology and how perturbations both physical, chemical discipline of Environmental Science. During this course, students collect, and environmental affects systems and connections between systems. analyze, and interpret data to complete a final written thesis. Students Prerequisite(s): SC 221 and SC 222 and SC 291. disseminate the results of their research with classmates and the Husson SC 450. Physical Biochemistry. 4 Hours. community in the form of a written and oral presentation. Exceptional All biological processes are governed by the same physical and chemical students are encouraged to present their research at a local, state or principles that control all chemical reactions. Thermodynamics and, national conference. Prerequisite(s): SC 490. kinetics are core disciplines in the study of biophysical chemistry. This SC 492. Senior Chemistry Research Seminar. 3 Hours. course examines the fundamental concepts of physical chemistry This capstone course provides an introduction to research in chemical and biophysical techniques to study the biological processes in the sciences. In the seminar setting students critically review primary cell. Topics include entropy, free energy, kinetics of complex biological literature sources and design, with help of the instructor, a serious and reactions, non covalent forces that determine protein and nucleic acid original research proposal in theoretical or experimental chemistry. stability (hydrophobic effect, electrostatic interactions and the hydrogen Students discuss their ideas and applied methodology with classmates bond). Other topics for the course include the structural organization during regular weekly meetings. The approved by instructor research in nucleic acids and proteins, nucleic acid-protein interactions, and the hypotheses are subsequently validated by experiments, field studies, or underlying principles of chemical kinetics and thermodynamics that theoretical calculations. Students report and share the research findings guides their behavior. Prerequisite(s): MS 182 and SC 285 and SL 285 and with classmates in the seminar format. The authors of projects of very SC 286 and SC 352. high quality will be encouraged to present their work at regional chemical conferences. Prerequisite(s): SC 393 and SC 394. SC 499. Topic/. 1-6 Hour. This course is intended to provide the opportunity to offer advanced courses in science that would not normally be a part of the Husson curriculum. As such the topics will depend upon the interests of students and faculty.